WISDOM OF THE MOVING BODY
An online, experiential class in trauma-informed movement practices
for movement educators, psychotherapists, body workers and somatic practitioners
for movement educators, psychotherapists, body workers and somatic practitioners
with
Paula Josa-Jones MA, CLMA, MSME/T, SEP, TTEAM
A recipe for entering the body:
Attention: because the body is precise.
Listening: because the body is subtle.
Kindness: because the body is tender.
Some of the modalities included in this class include:
The course includes 24 hours of online class meetings, two individual coaching sessions and a downloadable richly visual manual of skill-based practices, somatic meditations and practical anatomical information.
My intention is to share perspectives from more than 45 years of embodied exploration: experiences that have shaped me and my work, as well as practices that I have found to be revelatory and transformative in my practice. The course nourishes a vibrant, ongoing sense of our own embodiment and somatic awareness as practitioners - our ability to track our own systems as we are working with clients or students. What perspectives have I included or not included in sensing my own presence? I want us to become more curious about and more aware of the shifting tone of our inner witness. How do we sense ourselves in a moment-to-moment bodily way? Who is seeing? What are the selective preferences of our sensing? How can we slide our attention from witnessing to being witnessed without a ripple? The learning goals of this program are: